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Proverbs 6:6–11 points to the ant as an example of preparing and working without being forced. It contrasts small amounts of sleep and folding hands with the sudden arrival of poverty. The warning is that lack can come “like a robber.”
6Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
7Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,
8Provides her bread in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest.
9How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
10A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:
11So your poverty will come as a robber, And your scarcity as an armed man.